Today, my husband accidentally erased some pictures from our hard drive. No worries, nothing major: just everything from our wedding and the birth of our first child. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my external hard drive broke. My husband tried to fix it, and the computer told him he needed to format it. Apparently he didn't know what formatting does, so he did it. I'm a wedding photographer and had a full summer of unfinished wedding photography on there. FML
Today, I deleted a load of junk that was messing up my mother's computer. I don't know how I'm going to tell her I accidentally wiped out all of her wedding photos. FML
Today, I lost two terabytes' worth of photos to a friend's incompetence. He said he could save me some money and fix my slow computer for free. He ended up wiping the hard drive, and along with it, my photography portfolio from the last five years. FML
Today, I accidentally deleted my landlord's pictures of his child's graduation, girlfriend, daughter, and vacation when he asked me to delete a video off his phone. FML
Today, I got home from a family trip to Disney World. I had taken nearly 300 photos of our trip on my new digital camera. As our car pulled into the driveway, I was using my camera to try to delete one unflattering shot of me. I accidentally deleted every picture off the memory card. FML
Today, my husband put some photos of our wedding on Facebook. He named the album "FML". FML
Today, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. FML
Today, my husband and I switched phones by accident. I've already received several naked pictures from one of his co-workers. FML
Today, I woke up to find out that my phone, which contained all of my pictures and videos from the past year, had completely crashed. Despite trying everything, I couldn't recover any of the data, even from the cloud backup. All those memories, gone forever. FML
Today, while trying to fix a corrupted USB hard drive with my wife’s computer I accidentally wiped her laptop drive instead of clearing the external drive. I’m not allowed on her computers anymore. FML
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Top comments
JD26803 11
Should always have a back up OP! Bad luck though.
swaglesshipster 23
Well at least you have him and the kid still! Better than pictures
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ARetardedSeal 24
You can recover deleted files from a hard drive, but you're going to need a computer technician to do that for ya. Its a long explanation, but if you do decide to go that road be prepared to pay a hefty price.
abbyade 21
I hope you learn from this and try to back up memorable events, sorry OP!
oceanbrickfire 21
A picture is worth a thousand words, but a life is worth more. Someone told me that, but sorry OP
Teyros 24
Shit happens OP. He didn't do it on purpose. Things could always be worse. That still sucks though sorry.
abNormal62 23
Call Marty McFly, there is a way to rectify this you just need to go back to the future
lmbachman 23
Well, there's a possibility that they could've been restored, but hopefully you'll learn a valuable lesson and will start backing up your files. Lo siento.
bsums203 13
You dont have any prints, photos on your phone, social media? That way not all are lost.
reaper4012 2
just for the record, there are programs that can recover them still
jackthekeeper 24
if it doesn't exist in two places, it doesn't exist at all
cookiethumper 23
I miss the days when pictures weren't just stored on a computer. When you could hold a photograph... Dear me
gobiteme2 34
#24 I don’t know why you are getting down votes. Days are amiss when people need to have everything now at a point and click. I too remember the days of holding and looking at photographs very fondle
a1_z9 10
I don't think you're wrong to have that opinion, but my guess is it's getting down votes from people of a younger generation who are tired of being told that technology is making the important things in their life somehow less valid.